Publication Date: November 12, 2024
What would you do if you could start over? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot.
From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her.
Evie Hudson should be grieving her dead husband, but since the car crash that claimed his life and landed her in the hospital, she can’t remember him at all. The only person who can help her piece her past together is her high-school best friend Drew Kennedy.
When snippets of her memory start falling into place, Evie wonders exactly how she ended up in a life that couldn’t be further from the one she dreamed of. This time around, she’s seeing all the things she missed—and the life she gets to choose . . . again.
When a car wreck leaves her with no memory of her life past age 16, Evie finds herself trying to fill in the missing gaps.
Her journey unfolds in Pictures of You by Emma Grey. Being widowed and unable to remember anything past her “no romance” rule, Evie is thrown into an unfamiliar world where she has no idea who she has become at age 29. A seemingly random encounter with photographer Drew Kennedy gives Evie an outlet to try and reconnect with her past.
Unfolding with a past/present timeline, readers get to know young teenage Evie Hudson and her head-over-heels relationship with Oliver Roche juxtaposed against her budding friendship with Drew. As her memories start to return, Evie realizes this time around, she gets to make different choices. The author carefully provides just enough information to keep us hungry for more details, which contributes to binge reading. I found myself caught up in the story rather than watching the clock, so make sure you have a good reading window available.
The contrast between past and present Evie is thought-provoking. If our memories were erased and we found ourselves back at 16, would we have done anything differently? This certainly falls in that “coming of age” category where everything is seemingly possible. What message would we want to tell our younger self about making choices? In Evie’s situation, we learn about how the choices she made as a teenager altered her future.
Pictures of You offers an insightful look into a woman’s life and a tragedy that turns into a life-altering opportunity.
EMMA GREY is the author of six books, including two young adult novels, two non-fiction books on parenting, and her adult debut, the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note. Grey lives in Canberra, Australia, where her world centers on her three children, loved stepchildren, and stepgrandchildren, writing, photography, and endlessly chasing the aurora australis.
